Letters to the editor for Thursday, April 27, 2017

Regarding those in the state Legislature who tried to introduce a bill to allow suicide via self or doctoral help as in Oregon: Have they ever heard of the Fifth Commandment of God — Thou shalt not kill? In suicide, one is, literally, casting oneself into hell for committing a mortal sin prior to death!

While living in California, I had an acquaintance who tried to commit suicide but failed. When he informed me of this, I wrote a poem and sent it to him. He responded by requesting permission to pass it along to his other friends, to which I agreed.

In February 2008, it was published in a book The Inquisition (The Voice of Nevada Poets) by Ferris Jones.

The poem is titled to my friend and I would like to share it with those in the Legislature, who, evidently, don’t have a clue of what they are subjecting themselves to, and the rest of us, if it were to become law.